It won't be worth saying week after week, so until further notice just be prepared to be disappointed by the weekly release list.
I'm rolling a 1d8 to select this week's game of the week. And the winner is: Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons by Kasedo Games and Camel 101. It's a futuristic, real-time-tactics game, focused on ground-based combat, and it releases for PC on Steam later this week.
On the topic of 1d8s, I picked up the D&D 5e starter pack and the books for my boys over the holiday. I have extremely limited experience with actual Dungeons & Dragons outside of the world of CRPGs, but running the included basic campaign for my kids has been more fun than I expected. It's been particularly interesting trying to enter the mindset of a DM, and going through a lot of the preparation for actually sitting down and playing.
I'll have more to say about it down the road, but it's immediately interesting to me how, regardless of the medium, the fundamentals of good storytelling are consistent. I can see how it would be easy as a DM to become overly infatuated with the rules, or tempting to spend five minutes of the players' time looking through a book for exactly the right way to execute a story beat, and how insanely disruptive to the overall experience that would be.
Trying even just a few minutes at the most basic degree of difficulty, I immediately have a ton more respect — not that it wasn't already there to begin with — for really good DMs. Aside from being excellent role players, to master the process of running a game like this, what you really have to be is a very good oral storyteller.
PC
- Dark Gates
- Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons
- Project Aura
- Warhammer Quest
Xbox One
- Funk of Titans
PS4
- Whoa Dave!
Wii U
- Maze
3DS
- Best of Solitaire
- Painting Workship
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Robbed! Not only because it wasn't even able to be chosen via the 1d8 (as it's the ninth game on the list), but also because it was misspelled.
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I dunno, this bad boy looks ready to paint to me:
LastSuprise: Destroyer of Wallets would be an excellent tag and/or third handle for you.
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I'd buy that game.
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Rule 43 subclause 2 amendment 14b: If you can think of it, there is already a German sim game of it.
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Let's ask Aaron D. what he thought of Boat Painting Simulator 2014.
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How could you make a random pick when Best of Solitaire was an option?
Unless the natural color of steel now comes in white and red, I'd say that ship has already been painted.
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Just primed. ("Automatically prime" is an assist you can turn off in options.)
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Whoa Dave! is a terrible name. Apparently it's a Gaijin joint (Bit.Trip) so that makes it at least interesting.
How did I live before digital distribution of old, cheap games?
MilkmanDanimal wrote:You did live before digital distribution of old, cheap games. Now you just play games.
Mersenne thanks you.
Did ya'll get a low APR when you signed the lease on those high horses?
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LarryC wrote:The pumping crotch was nice, too. Hubba hubba. ;)
We want the funk. Give up the funk.
Edit: Uh.
Words... are a big deal.
Jill Lapore wrote:Editing is one of the great inventions of civilization.
At least it's historically accurate.
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What Stele said ^ -mortalgroove
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A funk themed Donkey Kong Country?
Dammit Microsoft! Stop trying to make me want an XBone! It's not going to happen!
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Yes, you can cancel Darksiders, but only by using your Sony Golds. Which, while pretty good, aren't a patch on Zelda.
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Is this the Game King basically saying "I am the Game King, here are a bunch of games, minions, and be prepared to read whatever I want to write about?"
On a more serious note, I agree wholeheartedly on the topic of DM'ing. It takes great skill to run a game that flows, a game in which the rules are tools, not obstacles, to great storytelling. So awesome that you can do this with your boys.
I don't think so, Plimsoll lines and name are present and wouldn't be if it was just primed. That's also a pretty common colour, especially for working ships. I see dozens every day from my office.
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Words... are a big deal.
Jill Lapore wrote:Editing is one of the great inventions of civilization.
I have a feeling it's a fella behind the scenes who writes these things and not Sands.
How did I live before digital distribution of old, cheap games?
MilkmanDanimal wrote:You did live before digital distribution of old, cheap games. Now you just play games.
Elysium is just a pretty face?
I don't feel disadvantaged with the stick I've got.
And benevolent overlord / CEO. Yeah, I know, I was at Orientation & Onboarding on my first day.
Wow, do I wish. Why am I not doing this?!
MINIONS!
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I meant more like this:
How did I live before digital distribution of old, cheap games?
MilkmanDanimal wrote:You did live before digital distribution of old, cheap games. Now you just play games.
I volunteer as tribute! You like JRPGs, right?
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Does that mean you're willing to write for us?
Words... are a big deal.
Jill Lapore wrote:Editing is one of the great inventions of civilization.
FTFY
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You mean she's not already?
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You could at least link to MinarClock's whole column.
Words... are a big deal.
Jill Lapore wrote:Editing is one of the great inventions of civilization.
Some people are busy! With things!
Well Minarchist was no help at all.